Stop by and take a look!

As of this writing, Bare Naked Islam is at www.endtimestoday.com.

The domain name will soon be changed to barenakedislam.com (as of January 17, 2012, it is not up yet).

More here:

• HillBuzz rails against WordPress’ decision to wipe Bare Naked Islam off the web
• Hooray! You found me!

BARE NAKED ISLAM Temporary Stay of Execution

The people at WordPress were kind enough to allow BNI to stay up until January 10th, four more days past the January 6th deadline.

Due to the massive content of this website including tens of thousands of photos and videos, my future webmaster needs some extra time to get the new site at barenakedislam.com up and running.

Got Twitter?

Follow @barenakedislam for updates.

BNI will be on RADIO JIHAD tonight at 6:15PM EST

On Our 1/2/2012 Show our special guest will be Bonni – creator of the Bare Naked Islam website. CAIR took credit this week for causing word press to shut down her website although WordPress denies they were influenced by CAIR.

On this show Bonni will be giving The Radio Jihad Network an exclusive interview on what really happened. We will also explore who CAIR is, how small they really are, why the FBI severed ties with them, and name several of the CAIR people who have been arrested and/or deported for aiding and abetting Islamic terrorist groups or general criminal behavior.

Corey Saylor and Ibrahim Doug Hooper of CAIR always have an open invitation to call in.
Tel: 1-347-857-1380

Listen Live or get podcast here: RADIO JIHAD

HillBuzz: WordPress Shuts Down “BareNakedIslam” After the CAIR Bears Threaten Violence Against WordPress Staff

[...]
The WordPress hosting service has deleted the site “BareNakedIslam” after receiving threats of violence from CAIR, Islam’s PR wing that operates in the United States and aggressively targets anyone who speaks the truth about “the religion of peace” — which is neither religious nor peaceful, but instead is a militarized criminal enterprise at war with western civilization.

I want to give you some personal insight into what it was like to deal with WordPress when HB was a WordPress-hosted site.

At least once a week towards the end of our time on the WordPress hosting service, WordPress would lock me out of the HB account while it “investigated” some complaint submitted by Obama acolytes who were determined to shut down anyone who opposed him and what he is doing to our country. The people who run WordPress are devote Obama cultists and kept locking me out of the HB control mechanism to intimidate us to stop writing about Barack Obama.

These lockouts would also happen following nearly every article we wrote about the weaponized death cult that is Islam. I was never told who was behind it, but someone out there would file TOS (terms of service) complaints about those articles, and WordPress would suspend my access to HB while they “investigated” them.

I was forced to pay a retainer to an attorney who’d swat back against each of these suspensions; it got to a point where we’d have these things cleared up and completely removed in under a day, because we got so used to them.

What’s very interesting to me is that WordPress governs itself with a complete and obvious political agenda with these sorts of things because it does not handle TOS complaints in the same manner when it’s someone they agree with politically that is being complained about. For instance, there are several websites out there that are dedicated to attacking both HB and myself on a personal level, where the authors defame me, have organized an effort to make me unemployable, have encouraged fellow Leftists to go after my employers so clients will not hire me as a freelancer, and where these hate sites have actively directed people to come after me physically here in Chicago. I’ve filed repeated complaints against these WordPress-hosted sites with WordPress, and every time I have been given a form letter response that “WordPress does not get involved in these matters and you need to take this up with the courts”.

That’s a stark contrast with WordPress.com making the clear and distinct decision to shut down BareNakedIslam, in the same way WordPress.com repeatedly blocked my access to HB (and on several occasions, mysteriously made this site disappear for a day or two as well).

This is why I made the decision to move HB to a paid server early in 2011 so that WordPress could not delete the site whenever they wanted, like they did to BareNakedIslam. During the 2008 campaign, Google’s Blogspot hosting service was caught deleting anti-Obama sites during the Democrat primaries. They were forced to stop when too many people noticed what they were doing and put it together that a concerted effort was underway to eliminate all opposition to Obama.

The same thing is happening now, with sites targeted for standing up to Islam.

Muslims attempt to terrify people into keeping quiet about the medievalist, barbaric agenda of “the religion of peace” in much the same way that the members of the Church of Scientology have for years attempted to terrorize anyone who exposes their cult for what it truly is. Because Muslims go a step further than Scientologists and threaten gruesome death to those who speak out against Islam, entities like WordPress cave to their demands and censor anything that does not praise “the religion of peace” and apologize for its death toll.
[...]
Read it all here.

Update: BNI temporarily reinstated, but only until January 6.

Maggie’s Notebook: Bare Naked Islam Reinstated – Bare Naked Islam Support: A Suggestion for Bloggers and Commenters

A last minute update. Reader TW informed me of a Tweet that Bare Naked Islam is back up on WordPress.com but must be gone by January 6th. A tweet says WordPress claims CAIR had nothing to do with their expulsion.

@barenakedislam

SHOCKER! WP has reinstated my blog and say CAIR did not pressure them. But they still want me gone by Jan 6

Read the latest BNI post here and note that while WordPress.com says CAIR did not pressure them, BNI says CAIR bragged about it all over the web.

Read it all here.

This message arrived from someone associated with Bare Naked Islam:

Of course we are looking at WordPress to tell us why, but it seems their staff is conveniently on holidays until Jan 2nd…[still were there to take her site down, we note].

I am hoping the site can be brought back with another server if this one keeps caving in to CAIR, or whichever variation is forcing the issue.

The last time BNI was taken down, CAIR was to blame.

For what it’s worth, you can email WordPress Support at support@wordpress.com.

We would suggest that counterjihad bloggers make plans to obtain independent hosting if at all possible. WordPress.com, Google Blogger, and other free hosting sites are more subject to outside manipulation.

Zilla has more details.

12/29/11 Update: BNI was taken down again.

Thanks for your help! BNI is back up!

Please note this comment:

barenakedislam
November 27, 2011 at 12:54 PM
BNI READERS: WordPress has banned me from posting new stories until the CAIR issue is resolved. Please write to WordPress in support of BNI if you can. support@wordpress.com

Terrorist Front Group CAIR attack on BARE NAKED ISLAM and its readers

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Once again, the thugs at CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) are trying to destroy our first amendment and shut down free speech in America.

Many BNI Readers have asked how they can help fight this crusade by CAIR: Contact WordPress here: SUPPORT@WordPress.com

Click here to view the embedded video.

CAIR Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CAIR Asks FBI to Probe Internet Threats to Mosques
Comment on anti-Islam hate site: ‘I want [Muslim] blood on my hands’

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/25/2011) — A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today called on the FBI to investigate a number of threats of violence targeting mosques posted online on an anti-Islam hate site, including the comment “I want [Muslim] blood on my hands” by an individual who claims he regularly drives past a Virginia mosque.

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) also urged WordPress.com to remove the hate site because its calls to violence violate the hosting company’s terms of service,” which prohibit blogs that “contain threats or incite violence towards individuals or entities.”

[NOTE: At CAIR's request, WordPress.com last year deleted a similar blog containing posts that advocated burning mosques, making false bomb threats implicating Muslims, desecrating Muslim graves, and that recommended the "proper way to shoot a muslim [sic].”]

CAIR said articles and comments posted on the anonymous blog “Bare Naked Islam” (BNI) routinely urge attacks on and desecration of American and European mosques.

[NOTE: Grammatical errors have been maintained for all posts and comments below.]

“Keith Mahone (aka Charles Martel),” who states that he regularly drives by a Virginia mosque, wrote: “[I]f you see a Muslim licking an ice cream cone in the park and you blow his head off you are technically committing an act of self defense. . .Muslims must learn they they are not safe anywhere outside a Muslim country. . .My heart does a back flip to see a mosque “desecrated”. . .Burn every mosque to the ground in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and kill every Muslim twice. . .I want their blood on my hands as a matter of principle.”

SEE: Keith Mahone (aka Charles Martel)

In a November 23 post headlined “Ready the Pigs’ Blood,” the blog’s author and commenters on the article urged violence and religious desecration to prevent the construction of a New York mosque.

SEE: Ready the Pigs’ Blood

BNI’s author wrote: “The mosque may go up, but it will never stay up.”

Commenter “angel” wrote: “I hope the tough Russians will burn this mosque to the ground many times over until the a**lifters get the message.”

“Sarastro” wrote: “Ban all mosques, blow up those that exist, and do not let another inch of sacred American soil be designated to be desecrated by Islamic buildings. Let’s hope the Russian Mafia will find the right remedy for this outrage.”

“Carl Tapp” wrote: “Bay people must contaminate the ground, buildings, and Muslims with the blood, urine and guts of pigs.”

“Kenneth Schustereit” commented, “Fill this hole with pig’s blood!” while “perry” wrote: “a lil pigs blood applied here and there.”

In reply to these threats “barenakedislam” suggested: “Perry, pouring [pig blood] in the cement would be better. They couldn’t wash it away.” The blog’s author later wrote: “I sincerely doubt that mosque will ever get to the point where they are blaring the Call to Prayer at 5AM. Mr. BNI has a Russian Jewish business associate from that neighborhood. He will know what they are going to do but I doubt if he will tell us. Probably better that way.”

Another BNI November 23 post headlined “WOO HOO! Yet ANOTHER anti-Muslim attack on a French mosque” asks, “Will the Muslims ever get a clue that they are not welcome in France?”

SEE: WOO HOO! Yet ANOTHER anti-Muslim attack on a French mosque

A comment to that post by “Sarastro” stated: “What’s all this pussy-footing??? Throw 10 Molotov cocktails into these mosques and burn them down even with a**-lifters in them, especially with a**-lifters in them.”

“GrouchyFogie” wrote: “Bomb the things to the ground, THEN burn them.”

“Burnerjack” wrote: “THAT’S not an attack. An attack is boarding the doors while the mosque is full and then fire bombing it. THAT’S an attack. I’m just saying.”

“Calls to violence and desecration targeting an American religious minority should never be tolerated and must be investigated by the FBI and other relevant law enforcement authorities,” said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. “Too many American mosques have already been targeted by those who share the extremist views expressed on this hate site.”

He noted that in the past year, mosques or mosque construction sites in Massachusetts, Oregon, Ohio, New York, Iowa, Maine, Georgia, Missouri, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas, California, and Michigan have been targeted by arson, vandalism or threats.

In May of last year, a bomb exploded at a Florida mosque. A recent fire at a Kansas mosque is still under investigation.

Hooper said a number of recent reports have documented the growth and promotion of Islamophobia nationwide.

CAIR: Same Hate, New Target
Center for American Progress: Fear, Inc.
Southern Poverty Law Center: Jihad Against Islam
People for the American Way: The Right-Wing Playbook on Anti-Muslim Extremism

CAIR is again urging members of the Muslim community to review security procedures using advice contained in its “Muslim Community Safety Kit.”

SEE: CAIR Muslim Community Safety Kit

CAIR is America’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.

Become a Fan of CAIR on Facebook
Subscribe to CAIR’s E-Mail List
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CONTACT: CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, E-Mail: ihooper@cair.com; CAIR Communications Coordinator Amina Rubin, 202-488-8787, 202-341-4171, E-Mail: arubin@cair.com

FYI to BNI READERS: new-law-cuts-ties-between-fbi-and-terror-linked-islamist-groups

Creeping Sharia  How bad are things when we need a law to ban the FBI from partnering with Islamic groups with known links to Islamic terrorist groups who plot to kill us? Anyway, a little side dish with your Thanksgiving dinner. via Patrick Poole at PJ Media » PJM Exclusive: New Law Cuts Ties Between FBI and Terror-Tied Groups.

When Barack Obama signed the continuing resolution this past weekend averting another potential government shutdown, it’s doubtful that he was aware that tucked into the bill, which funds several federal agencies through the fiscal year and extends the continuing resolution for the rest of the government until December 16, is a provision that may dramatically impact what Islamic groups and leaders the FBI and other law enforcement agencies can continue to work with.

Under Division B, Title II of the bill, under the Federal Bureau of Investigation-Salaries and Expenses section, is the following provision:

Liaison partnerships- The conferees support the FBI’s policy prohibiting any formal non-investigative cooperation with unindicted co-conspirators in terrorism cases. The conferees expect the FBI to insist on full compliance with this policy by FBI field offices and to report to the Committees on Appropriations regarding any violation of the policy.

The most obvious group that this will impact is the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which was named unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case — the largest terrorism-finance trial in American history. During the trial, FBI Dallas Agent Lara Burns testified that CAIR was a front for the terrorist group Hamas.

Following the trial, which resulted in guilty verdicts on all counts and lengthy prison terms for all five Holy Land executives, the FBI was forced to cut ties with CAIR – a decision that CAIR claimed would hurt local communities and that prompted other Muslim groups, like the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), to threaten to stop cooperation with the FBI unless CAIR was reinstated. In a February 2010 letter to members of Congress, Assistant Attorney General Robert Weich forwarded evidence submitted by federal prosecutors in the trial and court testimony concerning CAIR’s ties to the Hamas-controlled Palestine Committee and that committee’s role in supporting Hamas.

Stung by their loss of access to federal law enforcement agencies, some of the Islamic organizations named as unindicted co-conspirators in the case unsuccessfully sued to have their names removed from the list. In a 2009 unsealed decision by federal Judge Jorge Solis, the court found that the government should have submitted the unindicted co-conspirators list under seal, and ordered the list resealed (a hollow victory since the list is readily available), but declined to remove the groups and individuals named.

In fact, in his decision Judge Solis recounted the evidence submitted by the government that justified CAIR’s being named unindicted co-conspirator in the case…

But it wasn’t just CAIR among the unindicted co-conspirators that Solis focused on, but also the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which bills itself as the largest Muslim umbrella group in the country, and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), which owns the property to more than one-quarter of all mosques in North America. Solis wrote that the government had “produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR, ISNA and NAIT with HLF, the Islamic Association for Palestine (‘IAP’), and with Hamas.” He also wrote: “The Muslim Brotherhood supervised the creation of the ‘Palestine Committee,’ which was put in charge of other organizations, such as HLF, IAP, UASR, and ISNA.” And also: “During the [1993 Philadelphia] conference, Palestine Committee members discussed using ISNA as official cover for their activities.”

What impact this new legislation will have remains to be seen, but it is clearly intended to roll back the Obama administration’s penchant for relying on groups identified by government prosecutors as fronts for designated terrorist organizations as partners for “outreach.”

…

This new law will also curtail relations with the administration’s favorite “outreach” partner, ISNA, which, despite being named unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land trial, was last month included in a top-level meeting with the Department of Justice where Muslim groups demanded a formal declaration by the DOJ that any criticism of Islam constituted religious and racial discrimination. ISNA’s president, Mohamed Magid, is also a regular at White House functions and has been appointed to several government positions, including advising the Department of Homeland Security.

Congressional sources I spoke with on Monday said that this common-sense legislation was necessitated by the continued practice — in open defiance of the stated FBI policy — of dealing with and legitimizing individuals and groups that federal prosecutors had gone into federal court and identified as assisting terrorist groups.

…

Congressional officials expressed skepticism that the new legislation would permanently stop the schizophrenic government policy of engaging groups and individuals that the government itself has said are tied to terrorist groups, but it puts the Obama administration on notice that the days of the “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” outreach policies are drawing to a close.

The FBI has skirted the CAIR ban from the beginning so color us skeptical too. And do note, Congress: you are the schizophrenic government policy! Most of you should be fired immediately and lose any taxpayer benefits you receive.

My own suggestion to BNI and to all counterjihad bloggers who do not have independent hosting:

@barenakedislam,

I suggest that you try GoDaddy.com for your web hosting. GoDaddy does not censor our content at 1389 Blog. Their server space is fairly affordable and you can still download the WordPress software into your server space and migrate your WordPress database into it. GoDaddy also handles domain registration.

You can start out with shared hosting, but if you have fairly heavy traffic on your blog, you probably want a dedicated server.

You should be taking regular backups of your WordPress database and of any customization that you have made to your WordPress template.

1389AD

This is what I wrote:

From: 1389AD
To: WordPress.com <support@wordpress.com>
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 12:41 PM
Subject: It’s wrong for WordPress.com to capitulate to pressure from CAIR!

Your attention, please:

CAIR is an affiliate of the terrorist group Hamas. They are seditious and are the instrument of our foreign enemies. Any press release from CAIR should go directly to the trash can with no further action taken.

This type of censorship is why I cannot recommend that any serious blogger use WordPress.com, Blogspot, or any “free” hosting service.

Blog admin 1389AD

Faster load times, more spacious layout

You may have noticed that 1389 Blog already looks different. We have purchased and installed the “Thesis” WordPress theme from DIYthemes. This provides faster load times and more flexibility in the layout, as well as providing access to a tech support forum so that we can troubleshoot issues with the blog.

Because of excessive page size and load time, we found it necessary to move all of our blogrolls to a separate page. Blogrolls can be accessed with one click from the navigation menu at the top of the blog.

We now have room to sell ads on the blog. Ads must be in keeping with the message of the blog. If you are interested in purchasing an ad, please contact us via email.

Posting on political topics will resume again soon.

- Blog admin 1389

Operation YouTube “Islamism” Smackdown

Please update your favorites, bookmarks, and blogrolls!
Also please follow @ladyravensdc on Twitter!

What is YouTube Smackdown?

The YouTube Smackdown project provides a coordinated method for reporting jihadi terrorist videos to Google/YouTube and requesting that they be taken down. These jihadi videos are used for, among other things, recruiting future jihadis and showing them how to commit acts of terrorism. You can join the project by following the instructions on the site.

Why did YouTube Smackdown move to a new URL?

The Smackdown site moved from Google Blogger to WordPress after Google deactivated the account of one of the project’s associates.

Be careful about Google Plus!

The admins of 1389 Blog suggest that, if you do any counterjihad blogging, if you comment on counterjihad forums or blogs, or if you prefer to use a nom de plume, nom de guerre, or nickname instead of your real name online, that you do NOT sign up for Google Plus. Google currently forbids the use of pseudonyms or nicknames on Google Plus. If Google finds anything objectionable about your Google Plus account, they may decide to disable not only your Google Plus account, but also your Gmail account, your Google Blogger account, your YouTube account, and whatever else you have registered with Google. When you try to get it reinstated, they may become very intrusive indeed.

Please resume blog posting and commenting!

We suspended blog activities for awhile so that we could upgrade the PHP software, migrate the database to a new version of MySQL, and install the current version of WordPress.

The URL and the “look and feel” are unchanged. The only difference should be faster access times.

Thanks for your patience!

- Admins 1389 and CzechRebel

BlogRolling Will Cease Operation November 1st, 2010

From their site:

BlogRolling will be shutting down November 1st, 2010.

If you are not using BlogRolling code on your site anymore, you don’t need to do anything.

If you are using BlogRolling code on your site, you’ll want to follow these simple steps before the end of this month.

Get Your Links

If you want a list of the links in your BlogRoll, you have two options

1. Sign in to your BlogRolling account to cut and paste links out of your control panel.
2. Go to a page on your site that contains your blogroll and click on each link in your blogroll and copy down or bookmark the links you end up on.

Sorry, there is no “export” option in BlogRolling.

Clean Your Code

1. Remove the blogrolling JavaScript code from your site.
2. Not sure where the code is? “View Source” on your pages and search for “blogrolling” in the code.

Thanks for your support and patronage these many years! Happy blogging!

Note: 1389AD has already migrated 1389 Blog‘s blogrolls from BlogRolling.com to the built-in WordPress widgets. That involved manually copying and pasting roughly a thousand links. To my knowledge, at this time there is no available WordPress script plugin that would substitute for BlogRolling. It would be convenient to have an automatic mechanism to let other people display copies of one’s own blogrolls, but that feature apparently does not exist at this time.

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1389 Blog has been getting some strange visitors lately…

This chart shows the search phrases that people entered yesterday to get to 1389 Blog.

Here’s what happened: Someone entered the phrase “how to make remote pipe bombs” into Google or another search utility. 1389 Blog was included in the list of sites that came up, simply because we ran a news story about the Goose Creek “pipe bomb boys”. The person clicked on the link to get to 1389 Blog.

For the record, there are NO instructions on this blog for making remote pipe bombs or any other WMDs. I wonder whether this particular visitor became frustrated and decided to get back at us by falsely reporting 1389 Blog as a “hate site.”

In case you’re wondering, there is no hate speech on this blog. No trash talk. No incitement to violence. No mention of anything pertaining to racial issues. No ad hominem attacks. No bloody pictures. Comments are moderated, and we don’t even allow swear words. So if you’re looking for an excuse to ban this blog, you will find it only in your imagination.

So how can you find out who is visiting YOUR blog?

By running blog statistics and checking them regularly.

Where do I get blog statistics?

You’ll need to download a plugin, sign up for a web-based utility, or have your hosting provider set up a statistics utility if you want to gather statistics. Just for starters, try these. Follow the instructions at the websites:

• If you have a WordPress blog, whether it’s at WordPress.com or independently hosted, you can use the WordPress.com blog stats plugin.
• Anyone with a blog can sign up for Google Analytics.
• The free version of StatCounter lets you pinpoint the actual IP address for the most recent 500 page views. If this isn’t enough, you can upgrade to a larger log file size for a monthly fee.

How blog statistics can help you to improve your blog

There are other good reasons to run blog statistics.

For one thing, the only way you can build your audience is by trying different things on your blog, and then checking your statistics to see how readers react. You can see how many people are visiting, where they are coming from, which search phrases they used to get to your blog, which blog articles they are viewing, how long they are staying, what they are clicking, and so forth. If you don’t collect statistics, you’re just groping in the dark.

More:

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Are e-jihadists attacking your blog?

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If you have a blog, it’s bound to happen to you sooner or later…

The symptoms: Maybe your blog won’t come up in your own browser. Or maybe it looks fine in your browser, but not in someone else’s. You get a discreet (or not-so-discreet) message that there’s a problem. Somebody’s complaining about a 404, an hourglass, a browser crash, a blank window that says “Done,” a partial display, or a scrambled mess that they can scarcely describe.

You gotta fix it promptly! It could be a problem with your layout or content. It could be a problem with the hosting provider. Or it could be a hacker or spammer interfering with delivery of your blog. Whatever the problem, it’s up to you to do something about it. If you have a blog and you want to maintain your credibility, your readers expect your blog to come up promptly when they want to see it. They expect it to display attractively in all of the commonly-used Internet browsers. If your blog loads slowly and displays poorly, it reflects badly on your ability to maintain your blog. If your blog is down too frequently or for too long a time, your readership will disappear because visitors will think you’ve stopped blogging entirely!

Learn from other bloggers’ war stories!

Problems fall into certain general categories. Even though every blog troubleshooting scenario may look different at first glance, you can learn to spot the symptoms of common problems that are easy to fix. As a general rule, the more troubleshooting “war stories” from other bloggers you read about or listen to, the more problems you will be able to solve, and the more pitfalls you will be able to avoid on your own.

Here’s what I did:

In this case, 1389 Blog – Antijihadist Tech was displaying, but the format was scrambled. I found out about this problem when I got a direct message from a fellow Twitterer, ThomAllen, telling me that my blog wasn’t loading properly. I immediately checked it out in IE7 and the mobile web interface, but everything showed up just fine. My Feedburner output looked good also.

Don’t be afraid to ask for help! I asked other people on Twitter, and on an open thread in another blog, to view this blog in their own browsers, and to let me know which browsers they had used and what errors they saw (if any). I got a considerable number of responses. Thanks, everyone!

Pinpoint the problem. After reviewing the responses, I could see that the blog worked fine in IE6, IE7, mobile Mozilla 4, and Safari. But in Firefox, the main content in the center column was pushed to the bottom of the blog, below the final element in the left sidebar. Some people also warned that it took a long time to load.

Reproduce the problem on your own computer, if you can. Other Twitterers urged me to go ahead and install Mozilla Firefox 2 on my machine and use it to view the blog. I did exactly that, and was able to duplicate the problem that I had been told about.

Look at docs, man pages, wikis, forums, and whatever else is available. Because this is a WordPress blog, I looked up the problem in the WordPress codex, the WP Designer forum, and other WordPress forums and docs. Turns out that some browsers are pickier than others about how they handle issues with padding and elements that don’t quite fit in the allotted space.

What has changed recently? I remembered that I had made some adjustments to the sidebar size and padding in my WordPress layout to accommodate some petition widget code that was just a bit too wide to fit into the left sidebar. Hmmm, I thought, this isn’t working the way I thought it would!

Back out recent changes to get to a version that works, and rebuild from there. I started by reloading the original theme files for Cutline 3-Column Split. I created a WordPress page for Petitions and moved the petition boxes into it. To cut back on the load time and reduce visual complexity, I also decided to move the IT and Computing Links and the Mobile Web Links into separate WordPress pages also. Links to all of the blog’s pages are prominently displayed under the Pages header in the sidebar (see Resources).

So what are the take-home lessons here?

1. If you notice that someone else’s blog isn’t displaying correctly, don’t automatically assume that the blog owner is already aware of the problem. Maybe not! You can help by sending an email or other message indicating what browser you are using, and describing exactly what happened (or failed to happen).
2. On a regular basis, look at your own blog in several different browsers, including the mobile web interface if you have one. Be sure to view the blog before you have signed on as a blog admin. In addition, check your feed output and any other features that involve user interaction, such as polls and response forms.
3. It is not worthwhile to hack or tweak your blog template just to squeeze an odd-sized widget or graphic into a sidebar or other page element. You’ll end up with a lopsided theme that might not load properly. It’s better to find an entirely different place to display that item. And if you do any WP theme-hacking, be sure to test your new or modified theme in as many browsers as you can before releasing it for use in anyone’s blog!
4. Track your stats and check them often. It’s a good idea to use several tracking tools. For example, Google Analytics gives you a breakdown of visitors by browser type as well as by referrer (i.e., the site that the visitor came from). If visitor counts, and time spent on your blog, decline for a particular type of browser, that may mean that your blog performs poorly for that browser. If you stop getting traffic from a certain referrer, perhaps you are being blocked in some way. Other utilities, such as Google Webmaster Tools, can tell you whether search engine spiders are able to index your site’s pages so that the public can find you.

Also see:

• Why Bloggers Need to Ping
• Twitter 101
• Resources

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1389 Blog on Blogspot has been migrated to 1389 Blog on WordPress.

The WordPress blogging system will allow more features to be added to the blog, but the purpose will be the same. It’ll be an antijihadist/techie blog, as it is now, with emphasis on exposing jihadism and particularly cyberjihadism, and of providing access to the technical news, tools, and techniques that help antijihadist activists to be more effective on the Web.

Other blogs are not affected:

• I blog regularly at Ft. Hard Knox, either as 1389, or under my FHK forum name, AntiJihadist.
• 1389 Message Blog is one place where I post various links that I consider interesting. Others are welcome to use them.

Also see 1389 Elsewhere on the Web.

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Here’s a roundup of tools and techniques for bloggers who use WordPress.

Rolling updates follow the main body of this article.

New items are being added to the list as the information becomes available. Your comments and suggestions are invited!

• Economy Size Geek offers Postie, an add-on for independently-hosted WordPress blogs. It lets you e-mail blog posts, including photos and video clips.
• Andy Moore offers a downloadable plug-in to create a mobile web interface for your WordPress blog. WordPress Mobile Plug-In works well with PDAs and ordinary cellphones, and even allows editing through the mobile web interface. (Stein hoist and lots of good tweets to fellow Twitterer WiredPig for telling me about this and the above plug-in.)
• Alex King offers a collection of WordPress tools.
• eMoms at Home explains how to future-post blog entries in WordPress.
• William Teach at The Pirate’s Cove offers several blog posts that discuss WordPress tools:
  • List of Plug-Ins
  • Blog Post Editors
  • WP-PDA and Kate’s Sideblog
• Imthiaz Blog offers WP-PDA, another downloadable plug-in that lets PDAs and cellphones access your WordPress blog through your existing blog URL. This is the interface used at The Pirate’s Cove.
• Bill Hartzer describes One Simple Way to Protect Your WordPress Plugins.

Rolling Updates:

• Dev.Mobi plug-in for WordPress (Posted 6/30/07)
• Caveat: Make sure your plugins are installed correctly, so that search engine crawlers don’t receive error return codes at your site.
  WordPress Plugin Hurting Google Rankings? (Posted 6/30/07)

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